A Pueblo Democrat said today she plans to petition onto a recall ballot because she wants to make sure if Sen. Angela Giron is booted from office a Republican doesn’t take her place.

Sonia Negrete-Winn has until Monday to turn in 1,000 valid voter signatures from Democrats to make the ballot. A Republican, retired deputy police chief George Rivera, also is collecting signatures among his party members. Rivera said his wife, a Democrat, is one of the many people who urged him to run.

Giron, a Pueblo Democrat, and Senate President John Morse, a Colorado Springs Democrat, face separate recall elections in their counties on Sept. 10 over stricter gun measures they supported in the 2013 session.

Pueblo County voters will be asked whether Giron should be recalled, and then will be provided a list of candidate names to choose from as a successor should the recall effort be successful. So far, Negrete-Winn and Rivera are the only ones to seek petition forms in Senate District 3, the secretary of state office reports. Negrete-Winn, a social worker who has lived in Pueblo for seven years, said she does not support the recall, and wants to ensure a Democrat holds that seat.

Senate District 3, which includes about 90 percent of Pueblo County, has 70,719 voters and almost 50 percent are Democrats, according to secretary of state records.

Giron said today she has support from Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters and expects to survive the recall.

Someone should ask Sonia Negrete-Winn whether she supports all the gun control measures passed during the last legislative session. Why recall Giron and then vote in someone with the same philosophy regarding gun rights, or the lack thereof.

When you have been here long enough you learn that Carlee87 has proven to be little more than an apologist whore bought and paid for by the likes of Giron and Morse and their progressive ilk. She has little to say of any substance, and resorts daily to angry progressive diatribes using the same tired ignorant arguments. You are dealing with a little girl who came to a battle of wits completly unarmed, and then gets angry at anyone who puts her in the corner.

It’s you right wing lunatics who are the real anti-freedom nuts. Think voting rights, gay rights, and abortion rights. You far right extremists continue to infringe on all of these rights and you have the nerve to call others anti-freedom. You are an extremist and a hypocrite. Get lost loser.

Do you know how extreme you look when you accuse others of being anti-freedom? All of the evidence out there shows that it’s you and other right wing nutjobs who are anti-freedom. You right wing wackos try to deny people the right to marry if they are the same gender, you try to restrict people’s constitutional right to abortion and you infringe on people’s voting rights to make it much harder for them to vote. You know it’s you and other right wing wackjobs who are anti-freedom. All you care about is guns. You are a single issue low information voter.

Tannim- don’t act holier than thou- the biggest welfare program in the country is the home interest deduction- yes, its welfare- renters and those who own their homes free and clear, subsidize those who take the home interest deduction- we could have a flat tax of less than 20%, with our poorest paying no tax at all, if it wasn’t for the real estate industries stranglehold on congress to preserve this deduction- this deduction has created inflation and tax distortions- i bet you or your parents have taken advantage of this welfare program, or handouts, as you like to call them- the whole premise of welfare programs is that help to the few benefits all in the long run- if you despise welfare so much, convince your children to always take the standard deduction and give up itemizing deductions on your own return- otherwise, you are nothing but a hypocrite

Everyone is a single issue voter. It just changes from election to election. You may decide on one candidate because of their stance on abortion, another candidate because of their position on spending. The biggest problem is people who’s deciding issue is the letter after the name R or D. If you can’t see past that, your uninformed or a lemming being led over a clif by whatever party you associate with.

Wrong, these gun right nuts tend to be republicans and they tend to be single issue low information voters. All they care about is guns and gun rights. When I look at a senator, I judge them based on their whole record, not just one piece of legislation. An important point that needs to be made is that the majority of these gun loving extremists never even voted for Giron or Morse. The majority of democrats are not single issue voters like the right wing extremists tend to be.

Your use of perjoratives betray your bias and ignorance. Most Democrats, like most Republicans, vote not the person but the label. You could put Mickey Mouse or Alferd Packer on the ballot and it wouldn’t matter.
If people voted the person and proper principles rather than the label, the anti-freedom people like Morse and Giron would never have been elected in the first place, making the recall you’re complaining about unnecessary. Don’t blame the recall organizers–blame the poor voters and poor candidates they elect.

Wrong, your showing your ignorance. Although some democrats do tend to vote for someone just because they are a democrat, but then you have other democrats who vote for the person and what they stand for. Democrats for the most part won’t vote for another democrat unless they really like them and like what they stand for and do. Giron and Morse are not anti-freedom. It’s you radical republicans who are anti-freedom. you radicals are constantly infringing on voter rights and abortion rights and the right for a person to marry whoever they want regardless of freedom. You are a hypocrite of the highest kind.

LOOK
WHAT THE DEMOCRATS IN COLORADO HAVE DONE WITH THEIR GUN LEGISLATION! SENATOR
MORSE AND GIRON WERE THE LEADERS OF THIS CLOWN PARADE! THIS SHOWS THAT ALL THEIR
LEGISLATION IS NOT WELL THOUGHT OUT AND DANGEROUS AT BEST!! THIS SHOWS THAT THE
AVERAGE CITIZEN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SELL THEIR GUNS IF THIS GROUP CAN”T! IT IS A
BAN ON PRIVATE GUN SALES! RECALL GIRON AND MORSE BEFORE THEY DO MORE DAMAGE TO
COLORADO!

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BACKGROUND-CHECK LAW HALTS BUYBACK OF GUNS
By Brittany Anas The Daily
Camera
Organizers have canceled a gun buyback at the request of Boulder
County Sheriff Joe Pelle, who said Colorado’s new gun laws would make the Aug. 4 event nearly impossible to
stage.

“The bottom line is what we anticipated doing would still be legal
— but procedurally, we can’t follow through with it at this time,” Pelle said
Tuesday.

A stricter law
that went into effect July 1
requires buyers to go to a licensed firearms dealer and undergo a background
check. The InstaCheck systems used in the checks are not mobile, which means
they couldn’t be used at the sheriff’s compound where the buyback was
planned.

“It’s not a portable system,” Pelle said. “It can’t be done at
the site.”

For the event to work, Pelle said the group would have to find
a licensed firearms dealer to host the event and then pay the dealer per
transaction, “which becomes very unproductive,” he said.

Together
Colorado — a group that bills itself as a nonpartisan multifaith organization —
had planned the event.

Event organizers had planned to give gift cards or
tickets to sporting events to people who turned in firearms. Students raised
nearly $8,000 to purchase the incentives.

What is really hilarious is that they still can’t enforce that law for private sales but it completely scuttles another totally useless feel-good operation — the gun buyback. The sheriff CAN’T enforce it on private citizens but MUST enforce it on people running buybacks since they are conducted under his department’s supervision. Way to go Democraps!

She should state whether she wants innocent people to go to jail, as is preferred by John Morse as indicated by his failed attempt to jail gun makers for people using their products to commit a crime, or if she thinks innocent people should not be forced into jail cells. Pretty simple answer to me.

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.